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The Quechua languages' specialty is particles. Small subwords that you stick into or append to other words to change their meaning.
Causes are made up with particles indicating acusative, dative, genitive, and others.

Examples:

Infixes

wañuna

to die

wañuchina

kill. -chi- means "make ~" = make die

wañukrina

going to die. -kri- means "going to ~"

wañuchikrina

going to kill. -chi- and -kri- together, "going to make die"

Suffixes

wañunapash

died, too. -pash means "~, too"

The combinations are MANY.
But the grammar is not too complex; a good spellchecker will actually catch many grammatical errors since the words are written together.

wañuchishpaka

"if he was to kill … ", "if he killed …", "having killed…" few word order problems